Lydgate's Metrical Inventiveness and His Debt to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Duffell, Martin (J.)
Lydgate's Metrical Inventiveness and His Debt to Chaucer
- Published
- Parergon 18.1: 227-49, 2000.
- Description
- Lydgate was not an incompetent Chaucerian imitator; he used a different verse design. Parametric comparison of Chaucer's and Lydgate's verse designs demonstrates Lydgate's use of a tradition older than Chaucer's iambic pentameter. Lydgate had only English and French models; Chaucer's verse design is revolutionary, influenced by Italian forms.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.